Re: [GIT PULL] virtio: last minute fixup

[Theodore Ts'o]

On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 12:31:16PM -0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> > But my mailer, editor and terminal don't know what to do with a Message-Id.
> > 
> > Whereas they can all open an https link.
> > 
> > Making people paste message ids into lore to see the original submission
> > is not a win. People make enough fun of us already for still using email
> > to submit patches, let's not make their job any easier :)
> 
> Okay, I'm fine with using a dedicated trailer for this purpose, perhaps an
> "Archived-At"? That's a real header that was proposed by IETF for similar
> purposes. E.g.:
> 
>     Archived-at: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wgAk3NEJ2PHtb0jXzCUOGytiHLq=rzjkFKfpiuH-SROgA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>

I'd suggest is "Patch-Link".  Then we can also have "Bug-Link:",
"Test-Link:", etc.

"Patch-Link" is a tad bit shorter "Archived-at", and ultimately, it's
not actually not the patch which is being archived.  It's the fact
that it's a pointer to the patch review which is of most interest.

					- Ted